VMware (NYSE: VMW), a virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions provider, today announced that A.P. Mahesh Co-operative Urban Bank, a Hyderabad based Urban Co-operative Banking Institution, has implemented VMware View, a desktop virtualization platform. The solution has helped Mahesh Bank to deploy desktops as a managed service while automating administration and management processes and reducing total cost of ownership, informed the company.

“Deploying VMware View is enabling us to significantly reduce our desktop total cost of ownership and centrally manage our user environments. Moreover, VMware View has been integrated with ‘zero client’ desktop hardware to run a core production banking application,” commented Milind Rajhans, manager IT, A.P. Mahesh Co-Op. Urban Bank.

In 2010, as stated by the company, the bank deployed VMware View to run 30 user desktop environments in new locations as a pilot project. These environments were run in a virtualized infrastructure hosted in its production datacenter and are now fully operational. It also deployed Pano Logic’s zero client system with VMware View to support the bank’s core application.

“VMware View is the industry’s only purpose-built desktop virtualization solution, setting a new quality, cost and scale standard for desktop virtualization, eliminating critical barriers that have restricted adoption of desktop virtualization. Customers like Mahesh bank are part of a growing number of financial services customers in India that are reaping the benefits of VMware solutions,” remarked T. Srinivasan, MD, VMware India & SAARC.